All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves?

Hope is sure and steadfast trust.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.